revival playlist: October 2008

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june 05 2004

be my guest ~ fats domino

here i am baby ~ barbara mcnair

you really got a hold on me ~ the miracles

sweet feeling ~ candi staton

i second that emotion ~ the miracles

don't make me over ~ dionne warwick

pride & joy ~ marvin gaye

good times ~ aretha franklin

ee-zee ~ googie rene

baby your light is out ~ young holt trio

here i am baby ~ barbara mcnair

shacked up in paradise ~ tina harrod

don't mess with bill ~ the marvelettes

party lights ~ claudine clark

super duper love ~ joss stone (intro)

mahalo lucy

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HELP..!!...can you identify this???...it was used briefly as incidental music about ten minutes into a movie called "50 first dates"...sooo funky

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oct 30 2006

love TKO/lookin' for a love ~ bobby womack

good woman, good man ~ womack & womack

i got to testify ~ eddie hinton

feelin' good ~ little junior parker

this must be the place ~ tennessee ernie ford w/ betty hutton

our day will come ~ ruby & the romantics

boss on a boat ~ tosca

besame mucho/knickerbocker mambo ~ steve lawrence & eydie gorme

christine ~ john barry

frenesi ~ perez prado

thirteen men ~ anne margaret

theme from route 66 ~ nelson riddle

the saint ~ les reed brass

hot toddy ~ julie london

shadows of ourselves ~ thievery corporation w/ lou lou

plus je t'embrasse ~ blossom deary

la mer ~ charles trenet

beyond the sea ~ bobby darin

s'wonderful ~ julie london

the coffee song ~ eydie gorme

lebanese blonde ~ thievery corporation w/ pam bricker

death by chocolate ~ de phazz

romance in the dark ~ ada lee

42nd street ~ mel torme

nice work if you can get it ~ jo stafford w/ art van damme

topsy pt 2 ~ cozy cole

but not for me ~ ketty lester

cry me a river ~ julie london

the big hurt ~ toni fisher

moonglow & love theme ~ morris stoloff & his orchestra

gee, baby ~ peggy lee

knock me a kiss ~ louis jordan

baby elephant walk ~ henry mancini

saturday night ~ frank sinatra

cha cha cha d'amour (melodie d'amour) ~ dean martin

guitars, guitars, guitars

guitars, guitars, guitars ~ al casey & the K-C-ettes

he's a rebel ~ the crystals

Alvin (Al) Casey

(26 October 1936 in Long Beach, California – 17 September 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American guitarist.

He was mainly noted for his work as a session musician, but also released records and scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in the United States.

Casey began a longstanding association with Lee Hazlewood while still a teenager living in Phoenix, Arizona. His guitar is prominent on Sanford Clark's hit 1956 version of Hazlewood's song "The Fool", featuring a lick borrowed from the song "Smokestack Lightning", and on many other recordings by Clark.

He was also part of the backup for Duane Eddy's recordings, playing bass, piano, and rhythm guitar. Casey wrote one of Eddy's earliest hits, "Ramrod" (1958), as well as co-writing another Eddy hit, "Forty Miles of Bad Road" (1959).

Casey began working with his own ensemble, The Al Casey Combo, in the early 1960s. With this group he scored three instrumental hits: "Cookin" (U.S. #92, 1962), "Jivin' Around" (U.S. #71, 1962), and "Surfin' Hootenanny" (U.S. #48, 1963), recorded with Hazlewood. The "Surfin Hootenanny" album featured Al mimicking the styles of Dick Dale, The Ventures, and Duane Eddy.

Drummer Hal Blaine and organist Leon Russell played on many of these recordings; the backup vocal group, named as The K-C-Ettes, were in fact The Blossoms, later the Crystals, featuring Darlene Love. The small independent label he recorded for, Stacy Records, folded in 1964. Later he was a featured guitarist on the "Exotic Guitars" series of albums.

As a member of The Wrecking Crew, he worked as a session musician for artists such as The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, The Association, The Monkees, Johnny Cash, Eddy Arnold, Simon & Garfunkel, The Fifth Dimension, Harry Nilsson, The Partridge Family, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Sinatra on "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".

He also owned a music store in Hollywood in the late 1960s, and played as a member of the band on "The Dean Martin Show". He continued recording into the 1990s, including an LP release, Sidewinder, for Bear Family Records, in that decade.

Casey, along with many of his fellow studio musicians, was featured in the 95-minute 2008 film The Wrecking Crew by, Denny Tedesco. The film has screened at several festivals, but has not yet been commercially released.

Casey died on 17 September 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona.

art van damme

almost like being in love ~ jo stafford/art van damme

perdido/i know what you know ~ art van damme

Art Van Damme is a jazz accordionist born to Belgian parents on april 9, 1920 in Norway, Michigan USA

He began playing the accordion at age nine and started classical studies when his family moved to Chicago in 1934. He played clarinet for four years.

Van Damme was inspired by swing recordings, particularly Benny Goodman's and in the late 1930s he began experimenting, adapting Goodman clarinet solos to the excelsior accordion.

Throughout his career, he would often be compared to Goodman, since the two were both classically trained, technical masters of their instruments and versatile and creative jazz soloists.

quote:
"How I developed my style was in my first trio with jazz accordion, saxophone and drums. The saxophone player was a great improviser and I would try and copy him."

In 1944, Art made his first recording on the Music Craft label.
He joined the NBC staff in Chicago in 1945 and spent 15 years producing radio and TV shows.

After leaving NBC Radio in 1960, Van Damme opened a music store and accordion studio in Chicago but continued to tour regularly. He gradually shifted his focus from clubs to accordion and jazz workshops, telling one interviewer that "the audience is more attentive and listens more intensely."

Art recorded 42 albums plus a number of singles on 45-RPM and 78-RPM records for various labels such as Capital, Columbia, and MPS of West Germany, recording with, amongst others, Joe Pass, Joe Stafford, the Dinning Sisters and Harry James.

With his quintet he worked with many top entertainers including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Buddy De Franco and Dizzy Gillespie.

In an effort to create a new sound for the accordion, he recorded several albums where he combined the accordion with strings, brass, flute and a vocal group, Singers Unlimited.

He made 37 trips to Europe and Australia where he performed live concerts and appeared as a guest performer on radio and TV.

Besides having the group in the top ten instrumental categories for many years in Billboard and Playboy magazine polls, Art Van Damme was voted top jazz accordionist in Downbeat's polls for ten consecutive years.

quote:
"You can be taught how to improvise as far as playing the chords, but the person performing has got to have that special feel for real improvising. You can play the same notes that somebody else plays, but those notes would never sound the same."

Art Van Damme is married, has three children and six grandchildren. Although he retired to Florida, he continued to perform after the age of 75.

Personnel in the Art Van Damme Quintet:

Art Van Damme (accordion)
Chuck Calzaretta (vibraphone)
Claude Scheiner (guitar)
Lou Skalinder (bass)
Max Mariash (percussion)

discography:

* Cocktail Capers, Capitol T178
* More Cocktail Capers, Capitol T300
* More Cocktail Capers, Capitol H300 (10")
* The Van Damme Sound, Columbia CL-544
* Martini Time, Columbia CL-630
* Martini Time, Columbia CL-6265 (10")
* Manhattan Time, Columbia CL-801
* Art Van Damme & Miss Frances Bergen, Columbia CL873
* The Art Of Van Damme, Columbia CL-876
* They're Playing Our Song, Columbia CL-1227
* Everything's Coming Up Music, Columbia CL-1382/CS-8177
* Accordion a la Mode, Columbia CL-1563/CS-8363
* Art Van Damme Swings Sweetly, Columbia CL-1794/CS 8594
* A Perfect Match (with Johnny Smith), Columbia CL-2013/CS-8813
* House Party, Columbia CL-2585
* Septet, Columbia CS-8992
* Music For Lovers, Harmony (Columbia) HS 11239
* Many Mood Of Art, BASF MC 25113
* Star Spangled Rhythm, BASF MC 25157 (2 record set)
* Art In The Black Forest, MPS (West Germany) MPS 15172
* Art Van Damme & Four Brothers, MPS (West Germany) MPS 15236
* Lullaby In Rhythm, MPS (West Germany) MPS 15 171
* State Of Art, MPS (West Germany) 841 413 2
* On The Road, MPS (West Germany) MPS 15235
* Blue World, Pausa PR 7027
* Keep Going, Pausa PR 7104
* Squeezin' Art & Tender Flutes, Pausa PR 7126
* Art Van Damme & Friends, Pausa PR 7151
* The Art Of Van Damme, Phillips (Holland) B 07189
* Pa Kungliga Djurgarden, Pi (Sweden), PLP 005
* Lover Man, Pickwick SPC 3009
* By Request, Sonic Arts Digital LS12
* Ecstasy, SABA (West Germany) SB 15115 ST
* In San Francisco, SABA (West Germany) SB 15073 ST
* Art & Liza, Svenska Media AB (Sweden), SMTE 5003
* Once Over Lightly/Manhattan Time, Collectables CD
* Van Damme Sound/Martini Time, Collectables CD

with Jo Stafford
* Once over Lightly, Columbia CL-968
* A Perfect Match, Columbia CS-8813

cover art by jim flora

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mambo madness

i got to learn to do the mambo ~ ivory joe hunter

i got to learn to do the mambo ~ james hunter & snowboy

oct 11 2008

mornin' train ~ julius & marge cheeks & the four knights

bonus mp3: what you told me to do ~ julius cheeks & the four knights

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who is leon ware?

he cut two versions of 'body heat'...the first one came out in 1974 as the title track of a quincy jones soul album....featuring ware singing, & (according to AMG) billy preston, grady tate, herbie handcock, wah wah watson (g) & minnie riperton...it's redolent of the early funk sound...wah wah guitar/analogue synth/horns/bubble bass/organ...

the other version came out in 1975 on his own LP called 'musical massage' (!)...the one with the silly sexy cover...this version has ray parker jnr on guitar & again, to quote from AMG, " bassist Chuck Rainey set(ting) a groove for Bongo Brown, Gary Coleman, and Bobbye Hall's percussion orgy"...